Harvard University's endowment reported an unchanged position in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) at the end of the second quarter, pausing two consecutive quarters of selling, according to its latest 13F filing.
The chief executives of companies such as Coinbase, Ripple, Gemini, Robinhood, Polymarket and Kalshi are members of the new Innovation Advisory Committee at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, but before they attend their first committee meeting on Thursday, the crypto CEOs will gather for the White House…
Tether, the company behind the world's largest stablecoin USDT USDT $ 0.9990, said Thursday that it had completed a full financial audit for the first time, claiming it delivered on a transparency measure it had promised for years as questions lingered over the assets backing its token.
Zerohash, a crypto platform that handles the backend operations of high-profile traditional financial firms including Morgan Stanley's E*Trade, fell short last month in joining the dozens of firms who've recently been granted U.S. trust bank charters by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Hedge funds trading bitcoin BTC $ 64,978.27 futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange have turned net long, according to Ki Young Ju, CEO of blockchain data analytics firm CryptoQuant.
A massive pile of derivatives tied to mega-cap tech stocks could act as a 'coiled spring' for volatility, while AI and datacenter debt issuance hits 12 times the prior decade's average.
For Asian musicians, the Grammy Awards represent the ultimate dream and recognition of success in the global music industry long dominated by their Western counterparts. When BTS, widely regarded as the world’s most famous Asian pop act,…
Sales of luxury homes in mainland China’s top cities are picking up as high-net-worth individuals, benefiting from the country’s tech boom, splash out billions of yuan to improve their housing.
A man in central China has completed more than 200 trips to remote mountain villages in a year, visiting elderly parents on behalf of their children who work and live far from home or overseas.
The cables that link Australia with the rest of the world lie mostly unseen, stretched across the seabed and threaded through some of the Indo-Pacific’s busiest and most contested waters.
That has made download and derivative-model figures one measure of influence in the US-China AI race, as Chinese developers including Alibaba push capable models that are relatively cheap and easy to adapt.
A sales force of more than 100 agents allegedly cold-called thousands of prospective investors with sleek, scripted pitches for shares in the most exclusive private tech companies in the world, including SpaceX, Anduril, Anthropic, and Perplexity, while promising repeatedly there would be no hidden fees.
Anthropic PBC is telling prospective investors its second-quarter revenue jumped at least 14-fold versus the same period a year ago, according to documents seen by Bloomberg News.
Crypto traders are betting that Unitree Robotics will be worth more than four times its IPO valuation when the Chinese robot maker debuts on the public markets.
Tokenized equities reached 1.31 million holders over the past month, as monthly transfer volume surged 179% to $23.13 billion and distributed value rose 5.9% to $2.38 billion.
GPU Mode, in collab with Core Automation, recently hosted an auto-research themed contest. The problem statement was to implement batched square compact-Householder QR factorization aka QR decomposition.
If you have an iPhone, you've probably considered buying an Apple Watch —and with good reason. That said, I’m a firm believer that your Apple Watch is only as good as the accessories that support it.
The first U.S.-Japan joint intervention in three decades aimed at boosting the yen has come and gone without doing much to ease anxiety in currency markets.
If Ars Technica look at projects in terms of generating capacity, utility-scale solar led with 11,458 megawatts, followed by batteries, 8,207 megawatts, and then onshore wind, mostly because of the SunZia projects, with 5,473 megawatts.
JPMorgan Chase ended its banking relationship with prediction market Polymarket in October 2025, telling the company to find a new banking partner, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
The bank would also provide digital-asset custody as a fiduciary and let custody clients convert approved stablecoins into USD1. Zachary Witkoff, a World Liberty co-founder, is listed as organizer, director, and president.
“Not only are tariff refunds boosting corporate earnings, they are also boosting GDP growth,” Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok said in a note on Saturday. He estimated that the refund money will contribute about 0.2 percentage point to third-quarter GDP growth, which the Atlanta Fed says is tracking toward 4.3%.
President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the White House to continue construction on its $400 million ballroom project while it appeals a lower court’s order to halt the work.
Several Democratic lawmakers, including Sens. Jason Crow, D-Colo., who served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne Division and 75th Ranger Regiment before being elected, took to social media to criticize Trump’s comments, saying on X that “President Trump does not care about Fortune’s servicemembers…
President Donald Trump’s war against Iran is stretching the limits of U.S. aircraft carriers and leaving the western Pacific without one of the key American warships as China shows more signs of aggression.
Meta Platforms Technologies, the entity that holds Meta's R&D and hardware intellectual property, published a patent for a camera system that identifies people by face and logs what they do.
Harvard University's endowment reported an unchanged position in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) at the end of the second quarter, pausing two consecutive quarters of selling, according to its latest 13F filing.
Last week, Strategy sold bitcoin, Wall Street bought deeper into crypto, Washington kept Clarity alive, and Bitcoin itself split over how the network should change.
Tudor Investment, founded by billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones, increased its direct stake in BlackRock’s spot bitcoin ETF in the second quarter while cutting its reported call option position in the fund by 85%.
A resurgence in private, gated blockchains that differ fundamentally from open, public networks like Ethereum and Solana by creating silos that don't talk to each other eats away at the potential the technology was designed to achieve, according to Vivek Raman, the co-founder and CEO of Etherealize.
The chief executives of companies such as Coinbase, Ripple, Gemini, Robinhood, Polymarket and Kalshi are members of the new Innovation Advisory Committee at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, but before they attend their first committee meeting on Thursday, the crypto CEOs will gather for the White House…
There are limitations to the effectiveness of watermarking. Detecting a watermarking also doesn’t work well on small samples, where there are fewer word choices and thus less information to go on.
OpenAI’s rush to release new models and products contributed to conditions that allowed its AI agents to escape internal testing environments and hack Hugging Face earlier this year.
It’s no surprise that O’Reilly— publisher, internet pioneer, VC, conference organizer, and dispenser of tech wisdom —is applying that metric to the way people design and use AI. Specifically, he’s pushing for a future where open-source AI is an elixir for the masses.
The White House is now cracking down on these tariff dodgers. It claimed the U.S. is losing between $19 billion to $26 billion in tax revenue annually because of countries routing exports through other countries to evade levies, in a process called transshipment.
In 2017, Deanne Taylor attended a presentation at the University of Pennsylvania, a short walk from her office. A researcher was there to unveil the Human Cell Atlas, an ambitious project that aimed to map every cell in the human body.
A decade ago, SpaceX began to land the first stages of the Falcon 9 rocket with some regularity, but it’s only within the last five years that the company has begun flying the rocket dozens and then hundreds of times a year.
After Warren had specifically asked that the OCC put a stop to the application process for Trump-tied World Liberty, Gould had told her that the agency would act without considering politics and proceed with the application on its normal timeline.
StablecoinX (USDE) shares jumped more than 12% in early trading Friday after the newly public Ethena-focused treasury company reported its first quarterly results, revealing it held roughly 20% of the total ENA supply.
Privacy advocates and musicians rallied outside Madison Square Garden on Friday, pushing for new legislation to prevent facial-recognition technology at the venue and other public spaces in New York City.
The Federal Trade Commission recently announced deals with two auto dealers, along with the former general manager of a third, promising not to enforce—or even help enforce—their court-ordered obligations to maintain fair lending programs and not engage in unlawful credit discrimination.
A Washington court issued a final order requiring Kalshi to cease offering a wide range of event contracts in the state, after finding the company likely violated its gambling regulations.
“Mr. Mangione has accepted full responsibility for the death of Brian Thompson,” his lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo told reporters outside court, arguing that her client shouldn’t face two prosecutions over a “single tragic event.”
Tokenization-related stocks slid Friday after another delay to a long-awaited U.S. regulatory initiative weighed on investor sentiment towards the industry's expansion into traditional securities.
Strategy MSTR $ 93.05 has pushed back against MSCI’s proposed methodology for identifying “non-operating companies,” which could result in the largest bitcoin treasury company being removed from the index provider’s global equity indexes.
World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency project backed by the Trump family, delayed plans to sell a token related to a resort in the Maldives, on Friday.
“Customers of Leumi and PEPPER, the bank's mobile digital banking arm, will be able to buy, hold and sell selected digital assets, including Bitcoin, Ether and Solana, within the Leumi Trade capital markets application,” an official press release says.
Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin Trust and Grayscale’s Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF were the only US spot Bitcoin funds to attract capital on Aug. 13, offsetting part of a broad withdrawal that pushed the group to $131.1 million in net outflows for the session.
The Bitcoin Red Team is using Chinese AI models to search nearly the entire Bitcoin open-source ecosystem for security flaws, according to pseudonymous developer and Red Team lead Calle.
Wheeler, The Linux Foundation; Priya Pahwa, Django Software Foundation Open source is being stress tested. Session 3: The human side of AI: How building community drove 94% Copilot adoption Brittany Istenes, Independent What if scaling AI isn’t about better models, but better human connection?
Google and OpenAI both pushed the same message today: AI is now fast enough to feel impressive for those who use AI agents, each company announcing ultra fast models.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is set to further delay its anticipated "innovation exemption" designed to accelerate tokenized securities trading after concerns emerged from both the White House and Wall Street over the proposal's legal footing and potential market impact, according to three industry .
Crusoe-backed US transformer developer Heron Power has selected Morgan Hill, California, as the home of its first large-scale factory, as it seeks to meet growing demand from the data center sector.
Wireless charging makes a daily task a little bit easier, and Google’s versatile Pixelsnap Charger with Stand is one of the best wireless chargers at full price.
On Thursday, Flock announced plans to require all agencies with access to license plate reader data to use a safety tool that automatically detects abnormal activity and locks out cops who abuse their access to stalk people they know in their personal lives.
Prediction market giant Kalshi is in advanced discussions with Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management for a new $750 million funding round at a $40 billion valuation, The Information reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
Twenty-eight-year-old Jacob Fortinsky has been busy. Also, the sports trading company he runs, Novig, launched its prediction market last week, facilitating $18 million in trading volume on its first day.
Vantage, CyrusOne, and DayOne are all planning initial public offerings (IPO) with valuations in the multiple billions, according to reports from Reuters and Bloomberg.
"Republicans are the singular reason why a REAL ban on congressional stock trading has not become law this year," Justin Chermol, a spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said in a statement.
"This memorandum expands the fight against TCO-perpetrated cybercrime by incorporating the ingenuity of the private sector," the White House wrote in the order's purpose section, referring to transnational criminal organizations.
Apple CEO Tim Cook was joined by government officials, including Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, on Thursday to open a new manufacturing facility offering free training and educational classes for businesses in Houston, Texas.
The New York Times' Maggie Haberman tells me 70% of President Trump's mindshare ("maybe plus or minus 5%") goes to his gilding, construction, renovation, renaming and tribute projects.
The East Wing is gone, a new helipad is spreading across the lawn, and scaffolding wraps the White House's front columns, but the price tags for President Trump's renovations are far less obvious.
Tether, the company behind the world's largest stablecoin USDT USDT $ 0.9990, said Thursday that it had completed a full financial audit for the first time, claiming it delivered on a transparency measure it had promised for years as questions lingered over the assets backing its token.
Some Republican senators, who have historically backed banks, now face a choice between crypto and banks. John Curtis said he likes crypto but also likes his banks, while South Dakota Sen.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was on the verge of revealing its first major rulemaking effort in the digital assets sphere, having been set to propose its "Regulation Crypto," but the agency cancelled the Friday meeting in an end-of-day statement on Thursday.
Stablecoin issuer Tether said Thursday it has completed its first full independent financial statement audit, with KPMG U.S. issuing an "unqualified opinion" on the 2025 accounts of Tether International, S.A. de C.V.
Security researchers have found a way to read the encrypted "inner thoughts" of every major AI reasoning model—and uncovered 62 live API keys and 33 passwords buried in session logs that developers had shared publicly online without knowing what was inside them.
Crypto market maker Wintermute plans to invest about $1 billion in high-frequency trading and artificial intelligence data-center infrastructure over five years as it expands into stocks, commodities and foreign exchange.
Organizations are expanding both where they use AI and what they ask it to do. Frontier firms—those in the top 10% of AI usage each month—now generate 8.3× as many output tokens per active user as typical firms.
Choose your area of interest, time range, encoder variant, resolution, and imagery sources via the Studio UI or API, and get back a COG you can use however you like. If your application requires higher performance, Studio also supports supervised fine-tuning (SFT).
McGurn defended Truth API during Monday's call, describing it as a feed of publicly available posts delivered "fractionally faster" than through other channels. "Providing licensed real-time public data through commercial APIs is a well-established business practice," McGurn said.
The market is also demonstrating the durability of NVIDIA compute economics. One-year H100 rental pricing rose from about $1.70 per GPU-hour in October 2025 to about $2.35 per GPU-hour in March 2026.
Here's everything you need to know about the hardware changes and software upgrades on Google’s latest devices. It was inevitable, but prices are up across the board for Google's Pixel 11 series.
Like any regulated trading platform under authority of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, prediction markets firms try to encourage heavy traders and for firms to act as market makers in ways that can deepen participation and trading volume.
Securitize (SECZ) shares plunged 20% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the tokenization firm fell short of Wall Street’s second-quarter expectations in its first earnings report since going public last month.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has ordered Kalshi to keep operating after the prediction-market exchange declared a market emergency tied to New York’s enforcement campaign.
More Wall Street customers are signing up for a Trump Media & Technology Group service that allows earlier access to new Truth Social posts, a feature some economists are calling a form of insider trading.
The development costs of President Trump's White House ballroom keep rising — as does speculation about what the finished project, including its underground complex, will look like.
But only a handful can juice fundraising, draw a real crowd or make a mark with an endorsement. Zoom in: Axios asked strategists in both parties which lawmakers have enough star power to move voters, draw crowds or open wallets for candidates far from home.
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley narrowly defeated socialist Francesca Hong by about 3,000 votes, dealing a blow to the progressive left's momentum Tuesday in Wisconsin's Democratic primary for governor, after his own polling indicated he was behind by nearly 20 points.
Mike Lawler 's (R-N.Y.) fight to hold on to a key battleground seat is getting a behind-the-scenes assist — for now, at least — from an unlikely group: House Democrats.
John Larson of Connecticut has lost his primary race to former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin, NBC News projects, becoming the latest example of Democratic voters’ push to sweep out incumbent House members and replace them with younger leadership.
Zerohash, a crypto platform that handles the backend operations of high-profile traditional financial firms including Morgan Stanley's E*Trade, fell short last month in joining the dozens of firms who've recently been granted U.S. trust bank charters by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Goldman Sachs is set to add three crypto options-income ETFs to its asset management business through the Neos Investments deal it announced Wednesday.
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA) recorded $79,073 of realized gains and $265,776 of unrealized appreciation on written options in its first operating period, helping offset losses on its Bitcoin holdings and shares of the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT).
In a post on X, Lightcap said starting something new was “bittersweet,” calling his years building the company the honor of his life. “Through it all, I’m proud of how Decrypt has maintained Decrypt’s focus on people,” he wrote.
Riot Platforms announced it has signed a 20-year data center lease agreement with a "leading frontier AI lab" expected to generate roughly $9.1 billion in total contract revenue over the term.
MiniMax-H3 is a 33-billion-parameter open weights model that generates video and natively synchronized stereo audio from text, images, video, audio or a mix of all four. Poolside AI launched Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion-parameter open weight agentic coding model that works through hours-long tasks.
Node provider BTCPay Server said Tuesday it is funding a bounty for the return of bitcoin stolen from merchants last week, offering 10% of whatever is recovered up to a maximum of 3 BTC, worth roughly $190,000 at current prices.
The developer behind the Ravencoin cryptocurrency network said Tuesday the blockchain may erase several days of transactions after attackers exploited a flaw in the software that secures the network.
Courts in England and Wales have joined several restaurants, theatres and pubs in banning Meta glasses, amid a mounting backlash against what has been described as “spyware”.
A strange thing is happening in the used EV market. Despite the stronger pricing, used EV sales have been strong this year—up 25 percent year over year by May, although a weaker June has brought overall sales up over 20 percent year over year, according to the analysts at Cox Automotive.
New York sued Kalshi on July 31 after a federal judge ruled against Kalshi's bid to block the state from filing a lawsuit. "Kalshi has failed to obtain a license from the New York State Gaming Commission (Gaming Commission), sidestepping its obligation to pay taxes like licensed casinos and mobile sports gambling…
Billionaire Bill Ackman has built a $35 billion hedge fund, led high-profile overhauls at companies like Chipotle, and boasts an eye-watering investment portfolio through his firm, ranging from Amazon to Microsoft.
SK hynix has resumed investments in its fab in Dalian, China, which is operated by its Solidigm subsidiary, and plans to boost its output by 50% already in 2027, reports Sedaily.
Flight tracking site FlightAware has sued Kalshi, accusing the prediction markets platform of improperly using its data and name to "run gambling markets on flight cancellations."
Meta and TikTok tried to defeat thousands of social media addiction lawsuits in one fell swoop, but an appeals court rejected the attempt in a ruling issued yesterday.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is about to propose its first formal rule that sets more durable rules for crypto businesses — in this case, a regimented path for legal issuance of digital assets under "Regulation Crypto."
EToro’s (ETOR) crypto trading was $7.2 million in the red in the second quarter of 2026, a decline of nearly 120% from the $37.7 million it made a year earlier, according to its second-quarter earnings released Tuesday.
The trading firm is also introducing “Robinhood Cortex Digests for Crypto,” a generative AI-powered widget that analyses breaking news, market data, technical indicators and Robinhood's proprietary insights.
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Around the same time, several new organizations were founded to support Ethereum’s development and adoption, including EthLabs, a nonprofit that will contribute R&D work alongside the EF, and EthSystems, a for-profit spun out of the EF’s former Institutional Privacy Task Force that will build institutional-grade…
In 1903, the revered physicist Albert Michelson wrote that the “facts of physical science have all been discovered.” In the 1980s, Stephen Hawking predicted that theoretical physics might be finished by the end of the century.
North Korean hacker group Kimsuky is using local AI systems to target cryptocurrency and financial firms with sophisticated cyberattacks, according to a report released Monday by Genians.
H100 Group, a Swedish health technology company-turned-bitcoin treasury firm backed by Blockstream CEO Adam Back, more than tripled its bitcoin holdings after acquiring the Norwegian firms Moonshot and PDI.
The tablet screen’s 4:3 ratio matches that of Apple’s iPads or Microsoft’s Surfaces, which makes it a better fit for video with smaller black bars top and bottom when held in landscape compared to squarer foldables.
It added that it was also likely no cloture vote ever happens. News dropped last week a vote on the bill would have to wait until lawmakers return from August recess.
The UK’s FCA is reportedly preparing a regulatory framework for tokenized gold and how these products may be used as collateral assets in wholesale markets.
Hedge funds trading bitcoin BTC $ 64,978.27 futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange have turned net long, according to Ki Young Ju, CEO of blockchain data analytics firm CryptoQuant.
Standard Chartered has initiated coverage of Chainlink with a price target of $200 by the end of 2030, implying a roughly 25-fold gain from around $8 today and outperformance of both Bitcoin and Ethereum over the period.
Long before big-ticket crypto deals and billion-dollar acquisitions make headlines, there’s a long and hard-fought journey, often culminating in a secretive contest where jockeying suitors bid, bluff or walk, until eventually the best match makes it down the aisle.
The companies cited "prevailing market conditions, and shifting business and stakeholder priorities." They also abandoned a separate partnership under which Crypto.com would have serviced certain planned Yorkville America exchange-traded funds, though Yorkville America said its existing and future ETF plans otherwise…
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